The business was founded in 1859 by a Tailor, James Shaw
Walker, in Fleetwood, Lancashire. The shop originally
sold Mr. Walker's work to the local ladies and gentlemen,
but soon expanded to stock a wider range of gentlemen's
outfits. In 1889 his two sons joined the firm and the
name was changed to J.S. Walker and Sons. The business
continued to prosper and remained in the family through
three generations; the last of the Walker line being
Douglas and Arthur, who were great grand-children of
the founder.
ln May 1964 Les Farquhar joined the firm. Les was born in
Scotland and moved to Fleetwood as a boy in 1939. His father
was a skipper fishing out of Fleetwood at the time. As neither
Douglas nor Arthur had sons to follow them, the control and
ownership of the business were gradually transferred to Les,
who was joined in 1975, by his son Paul.
Walkers has remained a family business until Les passed away in August 2007. Paul and
a highly experienced staff of Michael, Geoffrey and Alan excelled in providing quality garments and quality
service to the people of Lancashire. Always using the latest technology
has enable us to bring you old fashioned service and high
standard products to everybody in the UK and beyond.
The success of menswear.co.uk has been built upon the success
of the past and will continue to do so. In 1995 BT awarded
the company first prize in its competition, run jointly
with the Sunday Mail, for displaying a combination of
traditional old-fashioned service, backed up with an
array of modern telecommunications equipment. This exciting
time was marked by coverage in National Papers, inclusion
in BT Television Commercials and extensive coverage
in BT magazines.
It has now been decided by the remaining family to end 150 years of successful trading and cease trading from 31st December 2008. We thank all our customers for their support over our long trading history and the many suppliers who have become our friends.
If you have any questions or suggestions please feel free
to contact us and we will be delighted to help you.
Tel: (+44) 01253 874574
Fax:: (+44) 01253 773440
E-mail: customercare@menswear.co.uk |
